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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.14.
   For information about new features in the 8.1 major release, see
   <A
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>    A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.1.X.
    However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.1.2,
    see the release notes for 8.1.2.  Also, if you were running a previous
    8.1.X release, it is recommended to <TT
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    indexes after the upgrade.
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>      Fix GiST index corruption due to marking the wrong index entry
      <SPAN
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>"dead"</SPAN
> after a deletion (Teodor)
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>      This would result in index searches failing to find rows they
      should have found.  Corrupted indexes can be fixed with
      <TT
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>REINDEX</TT
>.
     </P
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>      Fix backend crash when the client encoding cannot represent a localized
      error message (Tom)
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>      We have addressed similar issues before, but it would still fail if
      the <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"character has no equivalent"</SPAN
> message itself couldn't
      be converted.  The fix is to disable localization and send the plain
      ASCII error message when we detect such a situation.
     </P
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>      Fix possible crash when deeply nested functions are invoked from
      a trigger (Tom)
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>      Fix mis-expansion of rule queries when a sub-<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>SELECT</TT
> appears
      in a function call in <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>FROM</TT
>,  a multi-row <TT
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>VALUES</TT
>
      list, or a <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>RETURNING</TT
> list (Tom)
     </P
><P
>      The usual symptom of this problem is an <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"unrecognized node type"</SPAN
>
      error.
     </P
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>      Ensure an error is reported when a newly-defined PL/pgSQL trigger
      function is invoked as a normal function (Tom)
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>      Prevent possible collision of <TT
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>relfilenode</TT
> numbers
      when moving a table to another tablespace with <TT
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>ALTER SET
      TABLESPACE</TT
> (Heikki)
     </P
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>      The command tried to re-use the existing filename, instead of
      picking one that is known unused in the destination directory.
     </P
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>      Fix incorrect tsearch2 headline generation when single query
      item matches first word of text (Sushant Sinha)
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>      Fix improper display of fractional seconds in interval values when
      using a non-ISO datestyle in an <TT
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>--enable-integer-datetimes</TT
>
      build (Ron Mayer)
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>      Ensure <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SPI_getvalue</CODE
> and <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SPI_getbinval</CODE
>
      behave correctly when the passed tuple and tuple descriptor have
      different numbers of columns (Tom)
     </P
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>      This situation is normal when a table has had columns added or removed,
      but these two functions didn't handle it properly.
      The only likely consequence is an incorrect error indication.
     </P
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>      Fix <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>ecpg</SPAN
>'s parsing of <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE ROLE</TT
> (Michael)
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>      Fix recent breakage of <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>pg_ctl restart</TT
> (Tom)
     </P
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>      Update time zone data files to <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>tzdata</SPAN
> release 2008i (for
      DST law changes in Argentina, Brazil, Mauritius, Syria)
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